The China of the past is what feature film director John Curran was seeking when he scouted locations for The Painted Veil, which opens next week. It's based on the Somerset Maugham book set in China ...

A tale of love and disappointment set against the backdrop of a cholera epidemic in 1920s rural China, The Painted Veil follows the travails of a young English couple who marry too soon, and for all ...

What It Is: A made-in-China version of the W. Somerset Maugham novel about a distant doc, his lovely wife and his fight against cholera. Now Playing: In New York and Los Angeles, with more cities to ...

It seemed to Somerset Maugham that the problems of three little people did amount to a hill of beans in this world, and thus he wrote "The Painted Veil," back in 1925 on what might be called the ...

Naomi Watts supplies the grit and soul in this adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham’s novel. A stifled London flapper in the 1920s, she marries a bacteriologist for convenience and follows her stolid ...

The movies can't get enough of W. Somerset Maugham. According to a posthumous tribute to him at the 2004 Telluride Film Festival, he is "cinema's most popular author of the 20th century ... with ...

Although messing around on one's spouse can plumb the depths of the sordid, novelist W. Somerset Maugham had a higher purpose in mind when he wrote 1925's "The Painted Veil." So did director John ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Set against the backdrop of a horrible epidemic, "The Painted Veil" still manages to tell a beautiful and complex love story, ...